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ANN COULTER, BARACK OBAMA, RACISM, AND PARTICLE/WAVE PHYSICS: A GUIDE
The one thing that unites us all these days is political controversy: gays, race, gender, abortion, climate, congress, the courts, the president, the media, and it seems to be getting more divisive...
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HELPLESS IN YOUR BEAUTIFUL FACE
Helpless in your beautiful face, Helpless to triumph over the body, To secure a new life in a different place, To say the words sounding like the sea, Eating your fame insatiably. Helpless in your...
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VIDA!
The latest VIDA numbers are out. If you haven’t heard about this, it’s pretty simple: two poet-professors, Cate Marvin and Erin Belieu, for the past few years, have counted men and women published in...
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AS WE LIE IN THAT BED OF PLEASURE: MORE WISDOM FROM THE SCARRIET EDITORS
As we lie in that bed of pleasure, With you and your curiosity nearby, We offer you, with a limp, extended arm, the treasure That fell from our brain—a brain that thinks like a thinking eye, Bringing...
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FICTION: LIE OR ART?
Doesn’t it all finally come down to this? Is your fiction a lie, or is it art? If fiction is a mere lie, you have no right to call it art, and if you do, you and your art are a sham. Sorry. If your...
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WHERE DOES IT GO?
Where is your sighing lullaby? Last night strings Played the mystic tune. Usually desire sings The words beneath the mystic moon. The tempo is usually slow, Like flames running across a stream, The...
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POE AND THE BIG BANG: “THE BODY AND THE SOUL WALK HAND IN HAND”
We quote at some length, in this Scarriet piece, the last major work of America’s major author, Edgar Poe; like the Commedia of Dante or Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Poe’s Eureka presents genius on a...
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HOW THE LEFT HURTS POETRY
Uhhh…excuse me…ahem….can I ask just one more question? As enlightened as we know ourselves to be, we may as well admit it: the Left hurts poetry. (Doesn’t perfectionism always let us down?) But does...
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“YOUR AVANT-GARDE IS NOT AVANT-GARDE” MAZER, ARCHAMBEAU, AND BURT AT THE GROLIER
“In speaking of the Poetic Principle, I have no design to be either thorough or profound.” —Edgar Poe Last Friday evening at the Grolier poetry bookshop, Robert Archambeau, Stephen Burt, and Ben...
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MARCH MADNESS! POETRY! THEORY! MADNESS! HOLY MADNESS! REAL, ACTUAL MADNESS!
“Philosophy is the true Muse” —Thomas Brady THE BRACKETS CLASSICAL 1. Plato 2. Aristotle 3. Horace 4. Augustine 5. Maimonides 6. Aquinas 7. Dante 8. Boccaccio 9. Sidney 10. Dryden 11. Aphra Behn 12....
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FIRST MARCH MADNESS CONTEST: PLATO VERSUS HUME
PLATO: The manufacture of the ITEMS OF FURNITURE involves the CRAFTSMAN looking to the TYPE and then making the beds or tables WE USE. The type itself is NOT manufactured by any craftsman. How could...
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ARISTOTLE VERSUS SAMUEL JOHNSON
ARISTOTLE: TRAGEDY is a REPRESENTATION of a COMPLETE ACTION, which has MAGNITUDE, by people ACTING, and not by narration, accomplishing by means of PITY and TERROR the CATHARSIS of such emotions....
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LET ME PAINT YOU—NEW SCARRIET POEM
“Invade your privacy? I will give you your privacy forever!” –Portrait painter’s plea Let me paint you. The valley doesn’t know itself. You have listened by flowers When I, bold, told you the dozen...
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HORACE VS. POPE, AS THE MADNESS CONTINUES
HORACE: Study Greek models night and day. Whatever advice you give, be brief, so that the teachable mind can take in your words quickly and retain them faithfully. Whatever you invent for pleasure,...
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KANT TAKES ON MARX IN THE ROMANTIC BRACKET
KANT: Suppose someone asks me whether I consider the palace I see before me beautiful. I might reply that I am not fond of things of that sort, made merely to be gaped at. Or I might reply like that...
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BAUDELAIRE BATTLES ADORNO IN THE MODERN BRACKET!
Is the photograph modernity’s face? BAUDELAIRE: The world—and even the world of artists—is full of people who can go to the Louvre, walk rapidly, without so much as a glance, past rows of very...
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EDMUND WILSON SEEKS TO ADVANCE OVER JUDITH BUTLER IN POST-MODERN BRACKET CLASH
Wilson. Knew everybody: Edna Millay, Hemingway, Nabokov, LBJ; a blue blood Harold Bloom, he called Lord of the Rings “trash.” WILSON: We are not accustomed, in our quarter of the world, either to...
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MATTHEW ARNOLD VERSUS WALTER BENJAMIN
Matthew Arnold: sentimental, dour, whiskered. Influenced T.S. Eliot. ARNOLD: Wordsworth says in one of his letters:— “The writers in these publications, (the Reviews) while they prosecute their...
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THE NOBLE EDMUND BURKE TAKES ON THE WILY THEOPHILE GAUTIER!
Gautier. Loves the useless because the beautiful is useless. BURKE: Mr. Locke very justly and finely observes of wit, that it is chiefly conversant in tracing resemblances; he remarks at the same...
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PATER AND HEIDEGGER CLASH IN MORE ROUND ONE MADNESS ACTION
Heidegger: Man is the speaking creature. PATER: To define beauty, not in the most abstract but in the most concrete terms possible, to find, not its universal formula, but the formula which...
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